DAY 27 (6/03)

Tiring day:

FRENCH: During this lesson, I had to hush several pupils, but after 4 weeks being here, you really get to know how you should handle your pupils. It doesn’t help when you start shouting because then it will end in a discussion. I have just said how I felt and why and what I expected and they seemed to understand.
They’re actually really nice and friendly, you just have to know how to get them interested and motivated for French. They can be respectful and they can be friendly and polite and say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ without pushing it.
It’s just, we don’t know the pupils very well and that makes it more difficult. Some are special needs, some have dyslexia, … And we sometimes aren’t well informed about this. When you have this noisy class several hours a week and you really work with them and put strict rules, this can really be worked out.
Either way, as a teacher you stay an example, a model for your pupils and you can give them your morals and standards.

TRAVEL AND TOURISM: The lesson started really noisy, some boys were “fighting”, girls were nagging and shouting,… The start was really chaotic and Carlin couldn’t get them quiet.
During this lesson, the pupils had to plan a 4 day break to Euro Disney and look up things like transport to and from the destination, any transfers that have to be included, details of accommodation, what you will be doing, attractions, costs both for air travel and rail travel, explanation about which would be the best form to transport. But this hour, they only had to focus on the four first points, so until what you will be doing and the attractions.

There was also a girl who didn’t have any internet anymore and she was talking and bothering the lesson so I said to go and sit on another computer, but she said no.
I went to Carlin and explained the situation, but she said it was ok, otherwise there was going to escalate a whole discussion etc…
I felt sad. Sometimes, pupils really get what they want and because of that some become really arrogant.
If this would be my class, she would listen and change computers and work!

In the evening, I read some more in my SECOND book of Twilight ;-) LOL
The competition between Timmy and me keeps on going, but this time I think he is going to win… Unfortunately ;-)


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